GeForce GT 740 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GT 740
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GK107
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2014
January 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
993 MHz
715 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
31.78
23.52
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
3.0
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+